Zhou Xuanyu's acceptance of Zhou Yang as his righteous son was just a small episode before the start of the business, and the purpose of the Zhou family's late Qi cultivation monks gathering in the ancestral hall today was to discuss the expansion of the Red Flame Iron Ore Vein.

At this time, two years have passed since the discovery of the Red Flame Iron Vein, and in the past two years, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan has gone there several times to investigate the size and number of poisonous fire scorpion groups, and now he has basically figured out the situation.

According to the situation detected by the old patriarch Zhou Minghan, the number of poisonous fire scorpions in the Red Flame Iron Vein should be between five hundred and seven hundred, including a third-order [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King], and thirty to forty second-order poisonous fire scorpions, and the rest are all first-order poisonous fire scorpions.

The first-order poisonous fire scorpion is not to be feared, the monks gathered here in the ancestral hall today, except for Zhou Yang, who has just broken through the seventh layer of qi training, the rest of them are all veteran qualifications who have stepped into the late stage of qi cultivation for many years, and they all have second-order defensive magic weapons refined by the old patriarch Zhou Minghan in their hands, no matter how many first-order poisonous fire scorpions there are, if they can't launch a scorpion needle to concentrate fire attacks, they can't cause much damage to them at all.

Therefore, the main point of discussion among the group is still on the second-order poisonous fire scorpion and the third-order [poisonous fire scorpion king], these demon beasts are all existences that can pose a deadly threat to them, and they must make a plan in advance before they can act.

In this way, it was discussed, discussed, and finally after unanimous discussion and decision by everyone, the old patriarch Zhou Minghan first entangled the third-order demon beast [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King], and the rest of the people did their best to kill those first-order and second-order poisonous fire scorpions, cut off their wings, and finally use the power of the formation to surround and kill the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King].

The plan was drawn up, and the eighteen Zhou family's late-stage Qi cultivation cultivators, including Zhou Yang, rode the Shangsha Tuo Beast and quietly left the Yuquan Lake Oasis, and followed Zhou Minghan, the old patriarch of the Imperial Sword Flight, to the Red Flame Iron Vein together.

With the strength of the feet of the Shatuo Beast, only a few days passed, and they rushed to the destination with the Zhou family and his party.

Inevitably startled the snake, the camel team stopped more than ten kilometers away from the destination, and then the first-order high-grade array mage Zhou Xuantai in the team arranged a first-order formation "phantom array" to hide the camel beast's body, and the group abandoned the horse and used the "breathing technique" to converge the breath, and went straight to the poisonous fire scorpion nest on the vein.

The poisonous fire scorpion's nest is located in a sandy slope on the Red Flame Iron Vein, the surface of this sandy slope is covered with several meters of yellow sand, which looks no different from those ordinary sandy slopes in the desert, at most the surrounding desert plants are denser and more lush.

However, in fact, according to the investigation of Zhou Minghan, the old patriarch of the Zhou family, it was found that deep underground, this seemingly ordinary sandy soil slope, there is actually a huge natural underground cave, which not only has an underground dark river passing through it, but also connects to the underground spiritual veins, in which the spiritual energy is as rich as the level of the third-order lower grade spiritual veins.

The nest of the poisonous fire scorpions is in the underground cavern, and the desert plants and shrubs on the surface of the sandy slope are their hunting grounds.

At this time, it was dusk, and the temperature in the desert was more than ten degrees lower than that at noon, and the desert animals buried in the holes under the sand during the day were burrowing out of their hiding nests and came to the ground to find food for the day.

There are a wide variety of desert animals in the boundless sand sea, there are large, medium and small birds such as sand pheasants, sand gulls, sand swallows, sand fins, vultures, ostriches and other birds flying in the sky, and there are sand wolves, sand rabbits, camels, sand foxes, gerbils and other large, medium and small three types of beasts on the ground, in addition to many kinds of snakes, scorpions, centipedes, lizards, spiders and other reptiles and arthropods, of course, there are more types of insects.

These desert animals and the same variety of desert plants together build a desert ecological chain, basically as long as there are a large number of desert plants, you can find traces of these desert animals.

The desert vegetation around the sandy slope above the poisonous fire scorpion's nest is luxuriant, and there are dark rivers flowing through the underground, which naturally has a great attraction to the desert animals that are struggling to survive in the desert, attracting a large number of desert animals to settle and live nearby.

Every evening sunset and morning sunrise, there will be a wide variety of desert animals flying in the desert plants around the sandy slopes, looking for food to fill their stomachs.

Sand hares, gerbils, and insects feed on plant stems and leaves, sand fins and lizards feed on insects, snakes and sand foxes feed on gerbils, sand hares, lizards, and sand grouse, and sand wolves feed on all animals.

However, the existence at the top of this food chain is not the sand wolf with its strong skills and sharp claws, but the real owner of this place, the poisonous fire scorpion.

When the desert animals go out to forage collectively, it is also the peak period for the poisonous fire scorpion group to come out of the nest to forage for food, and the poisonous fire scorpions ranging from the size of a human head to the size of a bucket are all over the land of more than ten square kilometers around the sandy soil slope.

Whenever a prey passes by, these hunters, who bury themselves under the sand, will instantly flick up their scorpion pincers to clamp the prey's body, and if the prey is larger, they will be replaced by scorpion needles to prick it.

The first-order poisonous fire scorpion with a large human head needs to eat about one pound of fresh meat each time, and can go without food for up to ten days at a time, while the second-order poisonous fire scorpion with a large bucket needs to eat more than ten catties of fresh meat each time, and can not eat for seven days at a time.

As for the third-order [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King], it no longer eats the meat of ordinary beasts, but exclusively feeds on the old, weak, sick and disabled in the scorpion group, and every half a month, it eats a first-order poisonous fire scorpion of the same clan.

It is also because the [Poisonous Fire Scorpion King] has the habit of feeding on his own race, that the desert food chain on this side of the sand slope has not collapsed, otherwise the number of scorpion groups will continue to grow indefinitely, and the final result will be that after all the first-order and second-order poisonous fire scorpions have eaten up all ordinary animals, they will lose their food sources and starve to death and kill each other in large numbers.

Of course, in this world, except for Zhou Yang, a traverser, no one understands what the "food chain" is.

And although he knew the terrible consequences caused by the collapse of the food chain, it was a pity that he was in a world of immortal cultivators, and he was an immortal cultivator who had mastered powerful powers, and his thinking inertia had changed greatly, and when he encountered things, it was easier to look at and solve them from the perspective and way of an immortal cultivator.

The great power of the immortal cultivator belongs to himself, and when he encounters something, he can solve it with magic powers, and of course he will not waste his brain to think of other ways.

Therefore, even Zhou Yang, after knowing that the overall strength of the poisonous fire scorpion group was weaker than that of the Zhou family, the first method that came to his mind was to gather the masters of the family to destroy the other party together.

It wasn't until he followed the family elders to the destination, observed the hunting of the poisonous fire scorpion from a distance through the "Heavenly Eye Technique", and discovered the fragile desert food chain on the sandy slope, that he suddenly realized that in addition to solving the poisonous fire scorpion group by force, he could also use other methods to weaken the extermination scorpion group.

"I'm so stupid! Why didn't I think of this stubble beforehand? If I had thought of this method earlier, why would I use the old patriarch to take the risk of summoning all the elders to come back? As long as the old patriarch went over alone and set a few fires to burn the desert plants on the sandy slope, I would have starved most of the poisonous fire scorpions to death!"

Zhou Yang patted his head in annoyance, and hurriedly found the old patriarch Zhou Minghan to inform the other party of his findings and thoughts.

Of course, he would definitely not say the term "ecological food chain", but he just changed it in a way that immortal cultivators in this world could understand, and expressed what he wanted to express.

"Wonderful!

The old patriarch Zhou Minghan is worthy of being a monk in the foundation building period who has lived for more than a hundred years, Zhou Yang just said it for the first time, and he immediately understood the mystery inside, and he did not hesitate to praise Zhou Yang who offered his advice.

"Xiao Jiu, you are really the lucky star that our God has given to our Zhou family, such a clever plan can make you think, the old man is really unheard of, unheard of!"

After speaking, he directly secretly transmitted his voice and greeted the others: "Come on, come on, Quan'er, Xuanhao, you all come over to listen to Xiao Jiu's clever plan, and see if this plan is feasible?"

"It's really a clever plan, this plan is a ring by ring, starting from the smallest things, don't say that it is those demon beasts that have just opened their wisdom, that is, our immortal cultivators, if it really comes to the time when the disaster breaks out later, no one will find out that they have won the plan, good strategy, good strategy!" Zhou Quan, the second elder of the Zhou family, listened to the old patriarch's recounted strategy, and quickly understood the handwivels and beards that came over and applauded loudly.

"The strategy is very good, and it is easy to implement, not only can it be used here, but it can also be used to deal with other demon beast groups living in groups in the sand sea in the future, but this strategy is harmful to the heavens and the peace, if it can not be used, it is better not to use it!" The fourth elder Zhou Yun also nodded, very optimistic about Zhou Yang's strategy, but as a second spirit planter, he still had some instinctive rejection for this behavior of completely destroying the plant ecosystem, and he was also very vigilant.

But the person who really got to the point was Zhou Yang's father, Zhou Xuanhao: "I would like to add that this strategy must not be implemented on the oasis, and it must be kept strictly secret, otherwise we will be hostile to all the monks in this boundless sea of sand, and bring the disaster of extermination to the family!"

In the boundless sand sea, the oasis is the most important strategic resource, with the existence of the oasis, the mortals can be fed, and the more mortals there are, the more immortal cultivators with spiritual roots can be produced.

Therefore, if anyone dared to destroy the oasis in the boundless sea of sand, they would definitely be hostile and hunted down by all immortal cultivators, even if it was a big sect like Huangshamen, they would not dare to do such a thing that would offend the anger of the public.

The monks of the Zhou family have lived and grown up in the desert since childhood, and they know the importance of the oasis very well, after hearing Zhou Xuanhao's words, including Zhou Yang, who proposed the "ecological chain" strategy, his heart was full of joy, and the excitement on his face instantly converged a lot.

The old patriarch Zhou Minghan also said with a solemn face: "Very good, Xuan Hao said it very well, this kind of strategy really needs to be used carefully, of course it is best not to use it, if you use it, you must also keep it secret, don't let the news leak out and be known by outsiders!"

After speaking, he narrowed his eyes, looked at the sandy slope under the west slope of the sunset, and whispered: "You retreat to Qingping Mountain first, and leave it to the old man here, whether Xiao Jiu's strategy can work or not, you will know if you try it!"